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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 153. 



pp. 292. 392. The Rev. Peter Layng \ras Fellow of 

 King's College, Cambridge. See an epigram on him 

 in Cole's MSS., vol. xxxi. p. 131.] 



Coventry. — Whence the origin of the expression 

 of " Putting one in Coventry ? " A friend informs 

 me he has always understood that it took its rise 

 thus : If a, soldier was found to be a coward he 

 was sent to Coventry, as being a central town of 

 England, and a place where he was least likely to 

 be exposed to the terrors of an unfriendly army. 

 Is it even so ? or is it derived from the French 

 word convent, a convent, which seems to me more 

 apposite, as signifying seclusion from the rest of 

 mankind ? Wm. W. 



Islington. 



[The best explanation of this ex'iression is that given 

 in The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xv. part ii. 

 p. 1(58. " The inhabitants of Coventry were formeily 

 most decidedlj' averse from any correspondence with 

 the military quartered within their limits. A female 

 known to speak to a man in a scarlet coat became 

 directly the object of town scandal. So rigidly indeed 

 did the natives abstain from communication with all 

 who bore his Majesty's military commission, that 

 officers were here confined to the interchanges of the 

 mess-room ; and in the mess-room the term of ' send- 

 ing a man to Coventry,' if you wish to shut him from 

 society, probably originated."] 



Bonnydahher. — Strafford, writing to Lord 

 Cottington in 1635, highly extols this drink : 



" It is the bravest, freshest drink you ever tasted. 

 Your Spanish Don would, in the heats of Madrid, 

 hang his nose and shake his beard an hour over every 

 sup he took of it, and take it to be the drink of the 

 gods all the while." — Lord Strafford's Letters, vol. i. 

 p. 441. 



" We scorn, for want of talk, to jabber 

 Of parties o'er our Bonnyclabber." 



Tlie Intelligencer, No. 8. : Lond. 1 730. 



Of what was this drink composed ? 



Mauiconda. 



[Todd derives it from the Irish haine (milk), and 

 clahar (mire), a word used in Ireland for sour butter- 

 milk. From Ben Jonson it would seem to have been 

 beer and butter-milk mixed together : 



" That driven down 

 With beer and butter-milk, mingled together, • , . 

 To drink such balderdash, or bonny-clapper !" 



The New Inn, Act I. Sc. 1.] 



Bassano's " Church Notes." — Where are Bas- 

 sano's Church Notes, so often quoted by the Lysons 

 in their Magna Britannia (Derbysliire), to be 

 found ? and do they refer exclusively to the county 

 of Derby ? J. B. 



Manchester. 



[At p. 2. of the volume quoted by our correspondent, 

 the Lysons say, " We have supplied some notices of 

 tombs from a volume of Church notes, taken about the 



year 1710, by Francis Bassano, a herald painter of 

 Derby, which we purchased some years since, with a 

 collection of Cheshire MSS., and which it is our inten- 

 tion to deposit in the Heralds' College."] 



Degradation from Holy Orders. — Is there 

 any instance in the Church of England, since 

 the Reformation, of a priest having been de- 

 graded or deposed from his orders ? What 

 ceremony has been or would be used in such a 

 case ? The thirty-eighth Canon provides such a 

 deposition, as a final punishment for " revolting 

 after subscription." W. Eraser. 



[Dr. Alexander Leighton, author of Zion's Plea, was 

 degraded in the High Commission Court, Nov. 9, 1S30. 

 See Rushworth's Hist. Collect, vol. i. part ii. pp. 56, 51. ; 

 and An Epitome or Briefe Discoverie ofllie Great Troubles 

 of Dr. Leig/itojL, p. 82. 4to. 1646. For the various 

 forms of deprivation of clergy, consult Gibson's Codex, 

 pp. 1068. and 1443.1 



The Due de Nbrmandte, who pretended to be 

 the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI. He resided in 

 England for some time, and died at Delft in 1 845. 

 Is there any account of his life to be met with? 



W^ H. Hart. 



New Cross, Hatcham. 



[See Biographic de Louis- Charles de France, ex- Due 

 de Normandie, Fils de Louis XV L, connu sovs le Nom 

 de L'ex- Baron de Richemont, Tires des Mcmoires d'un 

 coniemporain, qui se trouvent Rue Neuve- Saint- Merri 35, 

 12mo., Paris, 1848, pp. 24. Consult also " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. iv., pp. 149. 195.] 



LEGEND OF SIR RICHARD BAKER. 



(Vol.ii., p. 67.) 



T do not know whether you may think it worth 

 while to refer now to any thing which appeared 

 SO long ago as in your 35th Number ; but should 

 you be so disposed, you have it in your power to 

 correct some very extraordinary errors committed 

 by your correspondents. I allude to the article 

 at p. 67., headed " Folk Lore," and purporting to 

 give an account of what the writer saw and heard 

 in Cranbrook Church with regard to Sir Eichard 

 Baker and his monument. 



There does not appear to have been any me- 

 morial whatever of the Bakers in Cranbrook 

 Church before the year 1736, when a cumbrous 

 but costly monument was erected in the south 

 aisle by John Baker Dowel, a descendant. The 

 position of this monument was found to be so 

 inconvenient, that some few years ago it was 

 removed to the south chancel, where it at present 

 stands. And now for your correspondent F. L. 

 She says, she saiv suspended over his tomh, the 

 gauntlet, gloves, helmet, sjmrs, Sec. of the deceased ; 

 and what particularly .attracted her attention was. 



